Desired employment/ Remote Sensing Engineer – Post Doc
Occupational Field
Work experience
Date from - 13/4/2005
Occupation Remote Sensing Engineer
- Contractor at ESA-ESRIN, Frascati, Italy
Main activities
and responsibilities: - Remote sensing data elaboration;
both optical and radar;
- GIS management and development;
- Remote Sensing Tools R&D;
- Technical Management for Environmental and
Security projects:
1. SAS-Newtec. Earthquake Monitoring And Recognition
By Means Of Insar Data Neural Network. Technical Processing
Components Manager (Team-Leader Of 3 People).
Main Customer: Space-bell, ESA.
2. GSE-Land. Urban Project. Land Cover Products by means of
Spot-5 and ancillary data. Technical Manager and R&D Activities
(Team administrator of 10 people).
Main customers: UE, ESA, Regione Veneto.
(See Publication [11] ).
30/11/2005, Chief Interpreter Certification in GSE-Land
Cover mapping products: M 1.1, M 2.1.Geoville, Innsbruck, Austria.
3. GSE-Forest Monitoring. GMES Service Element. Land Cover, Land Change
and Forest Maps generation by means of Landsat Images and neural
Network based processor. Thecnical Manager and Software R&D activities
(Team-leader of 2 people). Main customers: Ministerio De Medio Ambiente
(Spain), ESA. (See Publications [7], [10]).
4. EOMD Latin America Jaguar Miniprojects. Proposal Preparation.
Main Customer: Indra Espacio S.A.
5. GUS Treviso. Land Change Maps generation by means of SPOT-5 images.
Main Customer: Regione Veneto.
6. ERDAS RMS Training Course. Teaching activities on the ERDAS Radar Mapping Suite.
Main Customer: Regione Veneto.
Name and address GEO-K S.r.l., spin-off of Tor Vergata University,
of employer Via del Politecnico, 1 - 00133 -
Rome, Italy
Type of business or sector Remote Sensing
Date 1/11/2003 - 1/4/2005
Occupation Logistic Engineer
- Contractor at Rheinmetall Defence (Oerlikon Contraves),
Rome, Italy
Main activities - Electronic devices for defence applications and MTBF (Mean
and responsibilities : Time Between Failures ) analysis;
- Preparation of Technical; Operative, Tests and Maintenance
Manuals of Electronic devices for defense applications (LRU-2 and LRU-3);
- Technical Manager for defense projects:
1. SCCP. (Skyguard Coordination and Command Post).
Manuals preparation and Teaching activities.
Main Customers: Rheinmetall Defense, Kuwait Army.
2. Skyguard. Manuals preparation and Teaching activities.
Main Customers: Rheinmetall Defense, Kuwait Army.
Name and address Sipal S.p.a. Via Affile, 102 - 00131 - Rome, Italy
of employer
Type of business or sector Logistic and Services
Date 4/8/1998 - 1/6/1999
Occupation Military Service in Self-propelled Field Artillery –
210 Reggimento Artiglieria Da Campagna Semovente Trieste
Main activities - Armed Guard;
and responsibilities: - Instructor;
- Military transport Driver (Buses, Trucks, Tactical vehicles,
Ambulance).
Caserma Sernia e Pedone, Via delle Casermette, Foggia (Italy)
Education and training
Date 1/10/2005 - Actually
Title of qualification PhD in Geoinformation
Title of Thesis "A novel unsupervised neural based experimental method for Polarimetric
and X-SAR data classification"
Name and type of organization Tor Vergata University, Rome
providing education and training
Level in national
or international classification PhD
Date 17/11/2002
Title of qualification Master: Engineering In Telecommunications
Title of Thesis "Unsupervised Polarimetric SAR Classification: Entropy, Anisotropy,
alpha angle method"
Name and type of organization Tor Vergata University, Rome
providing education and training
Mark: Full Mark and Honours - (Italian mark: 110/110 e Lode)
Level in national
or international classification MS
Date 1/2/2005
Title of qualification Bachelor: Engineering In Telecommunications
Title of Thesis "SAR interferometry: Comparison among different methods for
interferograms generation"
Name and type of organization Tor Vergata University, Rome
providing education and training
Level in national BS
or international classification
Personal Skills and competences
Mother tongue Italian
Other Language
English Understanding Speaking Writing
Listening Reading Spoken Spoken
interaction production
C2 C2 C1 C1 C1
Social skills and competences Excellent ability to adapt to multicultural teamworks
and respect for diversity, achieved thanks to the
experience of working and living with people of other
nationalities
Organizational skills and Leadership capabilities acquired during projects
competences management
Technical skills and competences Deep knowledge of principal tools for remote sensing
Computer skills and competences - Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows, Linux
- Software:
Remote Sensing: ENVI, ER Mapper, e-Cognitoin,
Best, PolSARpro, IDL, ERDAS,
ArcMAP, ArcView, Rat, Doris,
Gamma, PCI Geomatica, etc..
Office Tools: Microsoft Office, Open Office,
Adobe Professional, Latex.
Others: Photoshop, Illustrator,
Dreamweaver CS3, MixTEX, etc..
Publications
IEEE Graduate Student Member since 2006
[1] C. Putignano, G. Schiavon, D. Solimini, and B. Trisasongko,
"Unsupervised classification of a Central Italy landscape
by polarimetric L-band SAR data",
in IGARSS'05, 2005
[2] E. Angiuli, F. Del Frate, G. Licciardi, and C. Putignano,
"Un algoritmo di rete neurale per la produzione di
mappe di sealing da dati satellitari Landsat",
in Workshop congiunto AIT e SIFET sul Rilevamento
Urbano da Piattaforma Aerea e Satellitare, 2005
[3] C. Putignano, G. Schiavon, D. Solimini, and B. Trisasongko,
" Self- organizing neural networks for unsupervised classification
of Polarimetric SAR data on complex landscapes",
in IGARSS'06, 2006
[4] F. Del Frate, M. Del Greco, G. Schiavon, D. Solimini, and C. Putignano,
"Uso di reti neurali non supervisionate per la classificazione di dati SAR polarimetrici",
in XIII Riunione Cetem, IV Workshop AIT sul Telerilevamento a Microonde, 2006
[5] F. Del Frate, M. Del Greco, G. Schiavon, D. Solimini, and C. Putignano,
"Self-organizing maps of polarimetric SAR imagery",
in POLinSAR 2007, 2007
[6] F. Del Frate, M. Del Greco, D. Solimini, and C. Putignano,
"Unsupervised classification of polarimetric SAR imagery
by self-organizing neural networks",
in ESA-EUSC 2006: Image Information Mining for Security
and Intelligence, EUSC, 2006
[7] C. Putignano, F. Del Frate, D. Iasillo, G. S. Peña, R. Vallejo,
E. Volden, and T. Hausler,
"GSE Forest Monitoring project and the Spanish case",
in Earsel'07, 2007
[8] A. Burini, F. Del Frate, M. Del Greco, C. Putignano,
G. Schiavon and D. Solimini,
"A neural approach to unsupervised classification of
very-high resolution polarimetric SAR data",
in IGARSS'07, 2007
[9] C. Putignano, F. Del Frate, L. Licciardi, G. Schiavon, and D. Solimini,
"Multi-temporal SAR images at X-band: scattering features and
potential in land cover classification",
in IGARSS'07, 2007
[10] C. Putignano, F. Del Frate, G. Licciardi, D. Iasillo, G. S. Peña,
R. Vallejo, E. Golden, and T. Hausler,
"An innovative algorithm based on Neural Network applied
to forestry mapping in GSE Forest Spanish case",
in ForestSAT'07, 2007
[11] C. Putignano, A. Burini, F. Del Frate, D. Iasillo, and G. Signorile,
"Produzione di mappe tematiche da dati satellitari:integrazione
tra metodologie neuralie ad oggetti",
in 11a Conferenza Nazionale ASITA, 2007
[12] A. Burini, C. Putignano, F. Del Frate, G. Licciardi, G. Schiavon, and D. Solimini,
"TerraSAR-X/SPOT5 fused images for supervised land cover classification",
in IGARSS'08, 2008
[13] A. Burini, C. Putignano, F. Del Frate, M. Lazzarini, G. Licciardi, C. Pratola,
G. Schiavon, D. Solimini, F. De Biasi, and P. Manunta,
"TerraSAR-X imaging for unsupervised land cover classification and fire mapping",
in IGARSS'08, 2008
[14] G. Licciardi, F. Del Frate, C. Putignano, and C. Pratola,
"Tasseled Cap transformation and neural networks for the design
of an optimum image classification algorithm using multispectral data",
in IGARSS'08, 2008
[15] F. Del Frate, M. Lazzarini, G. Licciardi, C. Putignano, and C. Pratola,
"Una procedura completamente automatica per la classificazione
di immagini satellitari", in XIV Riunione Annuale CeTeM/V Workshop
AIT / XIV Giornata MECSA sull'Ingegneria delle Microonde, 2008
Driving Licences:
- cat. B Italian Driving Licence (Car);
- cat. C Italian Driving Licence (Truck);
- cat. D Italian Driving Licence (Bus).
Artistic, sporting
skills and
competences - Bass Guitar Player - 10 years;
- Taekwondo (Korean martial art) - Level: Blue belt with red stripe